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Artificial Neural Networks For Analyzing Concrete Airfield Pavements Serving The Boeing B-777 Aircraft, Halil Ceylan, Erol Tutumluer, Ernest J. Barenberg
Artificial Neural Networks For Analyzing Concrete Airfield Pavements Serving The Boeing B-777 Aircraft, Halil Ceylan, Erol Tutumluer, Ernest J. Barenberg
Halil Ceylan
An artificial neural network (ANN) model has been trained with the results of the ILLI-SLAB finite element program and has been used to predict stresses and deflections in jointed concrete airfield pavements serving the Boeing B-777 aircraft. The trained ANN model produces stresses and deflections with average errors of less than 0.5 percent of those obtained directly from the finite element analyses. Use of the ANN model has been found to be very effective for correctly predicting ILLI-SLAB stresses and deflections, in less than 1 s, with no requirements of complicated finite element inputs. On the other hand, elastic layered …